President Trump’s lawyers say the president can’t obstruct justice because he controls all investigations. A confidential memo obtained by the New York Times outlines the defense strategy of the White House against Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

Republicans immediately leaked James Comey’s notes after they received them but the focus quickly turned to the memo’s representation of the President’s behavior and obsessions instead of James Comey’s credibility.

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt would be controversial even if he hadn’t flown to Morocco in December (first-class, on the taxpayer dime) to lobby the country on the benefits of liquified natural gas while living in a condo owned by a lobbyist for the country’s largest LNG exporter. A year or so into his tenure, Pruitt’s ideology-driven beliefs—directly contradicted by decades of global research by climate scientists—are now to be parroted by agency employees. An internal e-mail leaked to Huffington Post instructs all agency personnel what words and phrases to use in downplaying the accepted conclusions of climate scientists.

Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Paul Manafort shouldn't count on a presidential pardon, and why the Democratic rebuttal memo to Devin Nunes is a significant document.